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• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  examine some of the molecules produced by our positive control strains, and ... load of laundry expecting to be done with it by 4 pm today, but ... face by now because of how often i go. we (rui, chris, and i) do some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could ... eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put ... a second. We've gotta take care of something." Without putting the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a ... lot more exciting than either of them expected. I really liked the music ... about it, but I saw MTG's production of Cabaret early this year which I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... WHAT NOW WHAT NOW?!", all that. Of course, we both ran around panicking ... of social skills ("...um, yeah! That's right! We never really learned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  not by much. I passed all four of my classes, which is a massive victory ... , like, super rough. By the final of 3 units, the professor had told me ... ? I scored around 30% on two out of three midterms. By the end, I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  .  On the bus, he told me highlights of Ireland, but was interrupted by a ... . Imagine having this much beauty so close by. There was a family of deer ... beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  return. What’s cool: In many of these classes, you’re still taught by an ... 27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  (estimated by Mollie)? And how many of them watch TV frequently? It really ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... much of it! ...Anyway. I had fellow Senior House resident Milena write

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  can increase your likelihood of success by being smart, or hard ... , so try not to compare.  Start by saving a few months of expenses for ... I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  , actually. I am intrigued by the possibility of taking 1 second of video every ... self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This ... she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... residents—we were notified of his death before the rest of campus was, early

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  by that night. by the end of the night, it was clear that esp had to ... to class. i ate lunch with professor bucci, organized by the office of ... the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  given advice can be digested by the recipient regardless of whether or not ... attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the ... see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014